PublishedHarper Collins, April 2012 |
ISBN9780732293796 |
FormatSoftcover, 496 pages |
Dimensions21cm × 15.5cm × 3.8cm |
Your mother or grandmother probably used Helena Rubinstein creams or cosmetics once upon a time. She was little known and has been virtually forgotten, but her extraordinary life spanned nearly a century (she died in 1965 at the age of ninety-three) and three continents.
She was banished by her family to Australia at age 24 for refusing to accept an arranged marriage and as a result, became a pioneer who reinvented beauty for modern times. Napoleon Perdis says that he is inspired by Helena. This is the extraordinary story of the woman who created a cosmetic empire and gave it her name, of an entrepreneur who started with nothing except a belief in the strength of women.
